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What rule would you change if you had the chance?


davemurphy

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If given the opportunity, what current rule in boxing would you change? It can be anything you'd like............three knockdown, mandatory eight count, returning to 15 rds even. I'm just throwing it out there for discussion. For me, the first thing I'd change is the WBC's stupid headbutt rule where if your opponent is cut from an accident headbutt then your penalized a point. If it's accidental then it's accidental and nobodies fault, how do you justify taking a point based simply on trying to create a competitive balance? It's called a "bad break", leave the scorecards out of it. I assume the first answer for many might be getting away from the day-before weigh-ins, but I'm kind of talking about rules during the course of the fight. What would you change?
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I don't like the open scoring, or rather, I don't like it when the judges are not seeing the fight correctly.

 

Open Scoring, or after every 4 rounds is fine inprinciple but the judges can ruin fights. I would scrap the system.

 

If I could create a rule it would be - only 1 Champion per division. That rule would fix alot in boxing in one swoop. :)

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I don't like the open scoring, or rather, I don't like it when the judges are not seeing the fight correctly.

 

Open Scoring, or after every 4 rounds is fine inprinciple but the judges can ruin fights. I would scrap the system.

 

If I could create a rule it would be - only 1 Champion per division. That rule would fix alot in boxing in one swoop. :)

 

I'm one of the few who will defend open scoring because I like the idea in principle but the judges, as you said need sorting out. So can I create a rule instead of changing one and suggest that every judge who is unable to score a a fight is taken out back and shot? It would quickly end this bullshit of awful cards by the same men time and time again?

 

I'd like to see instant replay used more often. Things like the recent Delvin Rodriguez bout show how useful it can be to get the right result (that'd have had the same winner but the wrong result).

 

Every televised fight should have instant replay.

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Every televised fight should have instant replay.

 

--- Jeez, they already hold conferences in Vegas with all the org jerks dickering over this and that that can go on forever.

 

The big rule that would change boxing is scrapping the corrupt 10 point must system used to hide the nature of the fight from the public and protect the judges. Go to a zero based scoring, loser gets zero and winner gets one, if he dominates from pillar to post he gets two, KO worth an extra point, regular rule deductions taken after the scores are tallied so fans can clearly see why a guy scored less than they way he fights.

 

Currently the first 6 points in the ten point must system are almost never used as any more than complementary points for both fighters and the idiot judges can't even add up the totals correctly too many times to count. Instead dummies like the WBA are experimenting with 1/2 points, making things more complicated for dummies to add up which enables their fraudulent results. Included in the rules would be a clear implementation of the Queensbury rules emphasizing offense as most value, defense of secondary value, and ring generalship last. Eliminate the track meets and chicken chases it would!

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--- Jeez, they already hold conferences in Vegas with all the org jerks dickering over this and that that can go on forever.

 

The big rule that would change boxing is scrapping the corrupt 10 point must system used to hide the nature of the fight from the public and protect the judges. Go to a zero based scoring, loser gets zero and winner gets one, if he dominates from pillar to post he gets two, KO worth an extra point, regular rule deductions taken after the scores are tallied so fans can clearly see why a guy scored less than they way he fights.

 

Currently the first 6 points in the ten point must system are almost never used as any more than complementary points for both fighters and the idiot judges can't even add up the totals correctly too many times to count. Instead dummies like the WBA are experimenting with 1/2 points, making things more complicated for dummies to add up which enables their fraudulent results. Included in the rules would be a clear implementation of the Queensbury rules emphasizing offense as most value, defense of secondary value, and ring generalship last. Eliminate the track meets and chicken chases it would!

 

How about instead of the half-points (which I agree only taxes the feeble minds that already are hard-pressed to total simple 10's and 9's), why not a 20 pt system? I always thought it would be nice to have a 20-19 available for a nip-and-tuck round that could've gone either way and a 20-17 for a knockdown that was of the flash variety and didn't really deserve the 10-8 (20-16 in this case) but more than a 10-9 (20-18).

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I'm one of the few who will defend open scoring because I like the idea in principle but the judges, as you said need sorting out. So can I create a rule instead of changing one and suggest that every judge who is unable to score a a fight is taken out back and shot?

 

I'm all for that. Your right about it not necessarily being the system, as long as you have incompetents in the seats then nothings going to be an improvement.

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